(a)  The board, body or official issuing licenses under this title shall keep records of its proceedings and those records are declared to be public records to which the public has the right of access at any reasonable time and under any rules as shall be established by the board, body or official keeping those records.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 3-5-26

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6

(b)  Copies of those records certified by the secretary or clerk of the board, body or official keeping those records shall be received in any court as evidence of any of the proceedings recorded and the certificate of the clerk that it does not appear by those records that a person named in the certificate holds, or held at any named time, a license under this title shall be evidence of the fact stated in the certificate.

History of Section.
P.L. 1933, ch. 2013, § 23; G.L. 1938, ch. 163, § 13; G.L. 1956, § 3-5-26.